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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bongos
noun
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▪ We'd get Rick Wakeman to play piano on a date and then we'd add some one just playing bongos.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bongos

Bongo \Bon"go\ (b[o^][ng]"g[=o]), n.; pl. bongos or bongo. one of a pair of attached small drums, each tuned to a different pitch, played by striking with the hands.

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bongos

alt. 1 (plural of bongo English)Category:English plurals 2 (context music pluralonly English) A pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands. n. 1 (plural of bongo English)Category:English plurals 2 (context music pluralonly English) A pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

Usage examples of "bongos".

He remembers thinking, as Dolf snatched him from the floor with a flick of his forearm and hurled him through the air into a crowd of awestruck undergraduates watching from the daybed, bongos mute in their laps, that this would be what it was like to Indian-wrestle a 250-pound ant.

Now the clots coursed right along with everybody else in the mainstream, carrying big chrome-trimmed ghetto blasters that played tapes of bongos, I had to shake my head.

We walked through the shops and I decided I wanted to buy a set of steel-rim bongos.

When I left the shop, I had the bongos and was six dollars and fifty cents lighter.

Twelve feet in the air the flames ate the night sky, and I was helping a shopkeeper pull his bongos and wooden statues of Don Quixote and bead-shirts and serapes out into the street, and then there was a Mexican soldier, a member of the National Guard, a rurale, something.

The bongos were browsing animals, and Ali had discovered that they accepted the foliage of the acacia tree.

Your darling has a lovely voice, and she's getting better all the time with those bongos.

Then a fast trumpet riff lifted from the chorus of "Instant Karma," accompanied by a light rumble of bongos.